THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10. 1921.
Linen and Organdie For Midsummer
The frock at the left is of flowered organdie, the one at the right; of white lawn todel tinted organdie crith little frills of cera luce.
COOL LITTLE FROCK
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WHITE LINEN
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An air black fruck of plain and dotted organie
"ROCK OF LAVENDER HANDKERCHIEF LAWN WITH VANDYKE POINTS OF WHITE
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The airy frocks for mid-sum of the fashionable shades of the sandyke trimming points that are little gum arabic to your summer ribbon is made into a looped bow and trimmings. mer wear are so fascinating in season and the toast browns are so effective. The tunic is shirred supplies. These delicate organdies that falls over one side of the large designs in brilliant colour-to be answered
hat and ings will make one look smaller, have three receptacles. And have fabric, colour and style that it is the favourites. from the pale biscuit in several rows below the belt, a may not be starched for the starch organdie saah. The
pink textura of the parasol are
also. hard to choose between them. tint to deep brown of well roasted good idea since the shirrings keep thickens
The often leads to most unhappy re two pencils, one red, one blue. The moment a note or a latter has One longs to buy half a dozen or metins. Lavandar is another the crisp fabric from flaring too material and destroys the airiness, handkerchief linen frock basa sults.
Soft materials should be chosen been read check it off. Ifit mast more, so dainty and alluring are favoured shade and even the de-sharply at the hip. The deep bem but just enough crispness may be great deal of hand work with hand the models ready now for seleo- batantes are taking to lavendars of this tunic is turned up on the added with gum arabic water. hemstitched pleatings on surplice in preference to stiff. crisp ones. have an immediate reply put it in Several outside and a line of white Suggestively Spanish is the collar, sleeve and tunic and Such charming fabrics as crepe the "at once" receptacle sad at- tion. Some have ruffled skirts; and violets this season. some have tucks: some have charming summer trocks bave, vandyke points springs up from golden hued organdie frock with flowers fashioned of the material marocain, crepe de chine, chiffon, tend to that "at once" receptacle tanics; some have square necks, been noted in hydrangea blue, the top of the hem. The vandyke frills, of black lace and red roses appliqued for collar and tunic and its kindred, marquisette. at a given hour each day. Letters others rounded-out necks; but that lovely blue that is so cool on trimming runs down the slashed in a garland, and it is a formal Like all the linen frocks it is Georgette crepe, and voile, are to checked with a blue pencil may almost all have short sleeves and a hot day. There are pink dresses sides of the tunic and makes a frock in spite of its tab fabric. simple but exquisitely made and be had in so many beautifully wait a week. A red cheek means
shades, that the loss of "can wait a month." sashes. The mid-summer dresses, of course-pints we have always border at neckline and sleeve. The term tab fabric, however, in perfect taste.
taffetas, satin, and brocade, need' If it is hard for you to answer are very youthful and there is an with us-but somehow a pink edge, the neckline being piped means little these days, when one;
about this frock is not so smart, just now, as with the lavendar fabric at the must be careful about tabbing COUNSEL FOR THE STOUT
letters because when you do get irresistible charm
Nor should a gown with hard, as it you "ramble on" and one in brown or hydrangea blue edge. A narrow sash of violet some cottons yet crepe de chine youthfulness.
unyielding lines, be selected. rather shrink beforeband from The favoured materials for these or yellow. White is used generous grosgrain ribbon ties at the back, and Georgette may be plunged.
With the present tendency to the time you know it is going pretty frocks are organdie and its ly with tinted organdies and with long ends that hang over the into ho: soapsude.
We can all be slender if we loose sleeves and deeply cut to take you; learn to write slightly more patrician cousin, linens to give an effect of contrast tunic, and strips of the violet rib-pictured is a bridesmaid affair as handkerchief lawn. The effect is and sometimes sheer tiated staff bon are sewed under the vandyke you have probably guessed, but it choose. It is unfortunate that armholes, it is not a difficult thing short and to-the-point letters-as much the same, sheer and airy, is dropped over a skirt of white points on the sleeve. As a master-will be a practical costume for all many women who at twenty are to conceal a bad line from the & map does, Rare is the man who and crisp: but the linen lawn is fabric. This effect is noticeable stroke of colour, a deep purple summer wear at formal afternoon divinely tall and most divinely shoulder to the waist, the most rambles on." Unless you have tte gift of expression on paper-- slightly softer and falls into mote is the lavendar and white frock of grape falls carelessly from one gatherings. The organdie is not fair, at thirty are as tall and still dangerous to a good silhouette. graceful lines. It is usually more handkerchief lawn, an exceeding side of the sash. The bat worn clear yellow, but in that lovely as fair, perhaps, but just a little Few evening gowns are made, and can use a typewriter, your becoming to the average woman ly siruple but extremely modish with this costume is of lavender apricot tone that verges on the stout. There are ways of reduc- to-day, without a wisp of chiffon friends who are just as busy as than organdie which takes rigid little summer afternoon dress for legborn with a crown of draped pink and narrow black Chantillying of course, but they involve ortalle trailing from the shoulders. you are will shrink a bit also lines and stiff angles. But this youthful wearer.
organdie, and the parasol is of lace edges all the little panels time, concentration, and an inter- and a clever use of a lace scarf or from the closely written pages Lavendar handkerchief lawn white silk.
that make up the skirt-flower- val during which one must solve shawl will protect that vulnerable which must be deciphered to Very crispness makes organdie
forms the waist, sleeve and
Did you ever behold a daintier, petal fashion. The vesice and the problem of maintaining the poiut, the upper arm. adorable on youth.
Brown seems to have come into gathered tunic; white handker cooler, sweeter little freck for a front panel of the skirt make one smartness and chic which are so its own in sheer fabrics. It is one chief lawn the underskirt and the mid-summer day this the model continuous line, emphasized by easily at the command of the very
of dotted linen lawn which has the row of tiny black velvet slender.
A garland of flame rows of picos edging in the effect buttons.
To achieve this effect is never of tacks. This is not a formal Lovers with black loaves and a simple matter, and a casual frock, of course, but it is delightful stems ruas down one side of the glance at the fashions for this) Some people are insolvent in for summer afternoons. The skirt and the apricot organdie hat summer and autumn is particu: courtesy-when it comes to letter material of this little frock is has a flame and black flower larly discouraging. Many of the writing, and seem to take pride handkerchief lawn-white with aorasment to match. The parasol newest models have an engaging about it. ..tiny blue dot, and the picot edge is of flame silk in tiny frills. youthfulness that is very charm- "I am perfectly terrible about
trimming is blue. Five tacks on Slippers and stockings are black. ing if a woman happens to answering letters." you hear, BELTS ARE IMPORTANT. either side of the skirt, picot edged Again the simpler type of som-be slim, but which is apt to be a spoken in quite a complacent in blue; four tacks at the front of mer day frock, pictured in the bit absurd if the figure is a little manner. And. My dear, you Belts have been almost forgot- the bodice, and three tucks on model of toast brown organdie, matronly. Yet, sarely the makers know what a bad correspondent ten by fashion for the last few each sashend. The sash, the with little frills of ecru lace and of the mode do not expect all wo I am." is supposed to excuse any-years, but now tashion has taken neckline and the sleeve are also buttons on the vestee. Don't men whose waistlines measure body's negligence in this respect. them up again and has rushed finished with the dainty picot overlook the fact that buttons are more than 34 inches to retire to There are women who would into all sorts of extravagant edge. The bodice is cat kimono shown on the vestees of two sheer jone of those communities where never dream of letting a borrowed fancies in beltware. Surely small fashion and the tucks in front are frocks today-it is quite the latest the genial garment known as the fifty cent piece go unpaid over-waists must "come in" again— set in the section of tucking notion. The toast brown organdie Mother Hubbard is the last word night, and who cannot rest after now that belts are so conspicuous stitched into the bodice under model also has the exaggerated in dress.
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THE COURTESY OF A LETTER-
catch the gist of your ramblings
on. It is a very good idea, when you are reading letters, to catch up a pencil and draw a circle around anything you want to refer to in answering. Then you need not, a month later, reread that whole letter bat
glance, from the penciled circles, just what you want to say.
can see
at
flat seam. The skirt has straight hem; you see the skirt is nearly! The answer to the problem sag-score has been paid off on with metal-trimming or are in panels at front and back, with all hem, and this double layer of gested by these reflections is that their own account; yet a letter bright colors that contrast with tacked side-panels gathered into material up to the bip gives alone must meet the emergency of sympathy or congratulation or the rest of the costume, and are the belt. Try this little frock in depth of colour that makes a trim.with thought and a good dress inquiry will go unsaswered on rather cruel to the woman whose your home sewing room and when ming feature, as well as prevent.Imaker. A few abeolutely unbreak- their deeks for months and when proportions cannot stand a bisect- it is all made, add the picot edge ing too sheer a suggestion over ajable rules must be observed, and the answer does go two pages of ing line. with a very fine crochet hook and petticoat. The Tuxedo collar ex- the most important is not to defeat it are filled with apologies for ita White kid belts have ivory fast colour cotton.
tends in tabs below the sash and the dressmaker before her work delayed date. We all know those clasps and there are red leather The other dotted model pictured this frock is really quite straight is begun.
friends who fill the first two or belts with dangling red silk
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is decidedly more elaborate and and loose in its lines, the sash No frock, however well cut and three pages of their belated tassels-a tiny bit suggestive of is indeed a rather formal affair of drawing it in to trimness after it designed, can reflect its maker's letters with good reasons why scalp trophies. Other leather belts | black organdio with bodice and is on. A great many of these this intention when it is worn over a they bave not written and have plasques of carved galalith
overskirt of black organdie pin-dresses are built without waist-bad corset and brassiere,
usually the reasons are not so and sometimes slides of highly dotted, in white. The pleated bands and slip over the head like With the present tendency to very convincing after all.
coloured galalith are strung on a ruffles, the cash, the collar andļa nightgown-eliminating the the uncorseted figure, the woman The very well brought up belt of moire ribbon. One odd the vestee are of plain black bother of & front fastening. who cannot dispose with such woman, knows that letters belt is of white leather with a organdie, a section of dotted When the straight frock is on, & support must be prepared to make must be answered, thetrunning pattern of Greek dancing organdie finished with a frill wide sash is tied gracefully around every effort to get a corset which just 87 many minutes of figures done in black and a buckle turning down over the vestee the waistline as low as the will not distort her figure out of the day every day-most be of black enamel. Anollier belt is The skirt has the usual deep hem waistline can be made.
all semblance to the human form. given to the work even if some of painted leather in Egyptian and the overskirt panels are not One picture today shows two she should study herself and thing more alluring has to be design. Perhaps the oddest belt hemmed at all, but are falshed ammer dresses side by side, one choose a corset that gives her as sacrificed. The writing desk of of all is the one that tries its best with narrow pleated rules. A of flowered and plain organdle, long lines as possible. In the last such a woman in as ready for into look like a smart piece of lug="" cluster of cerise flowers is caught the other of white handkerchief few years there has been a great stant and constant use sa ber gage. It is made of shiny black against the wash and the hat is of linea; and it is hard to choose bo-advance in the making of dressing table. Iok, paper and leather and is studded with cerise straw with white straw tween these enchanting frocks. Of brassieres, and there is no longer stamps are always on hand. She nailheads. brim and appliqued ribbon. The course, the model at the right, any excuse for the pushed-up look would no more be "out of stamps” feature of such a frock is its with surplice bodice, is a better that should have departed with than out of hairpins; for the ne-with blouse and sport skirt. And crispness. Limp black is not fash-style for the average woman than the bour-glass waist of many cessity of courtesy in note answer- soms of them will encircle slender, ionable tbis 69830. Afternoon the frock with pleating around years ago, but which one still sees ing is just as important as good waists over sport costs and sweat- frocks of black are siry and crisp vandyke scallops and a wide collar on women of misguided judgment, grooming.
tera. Belts are worn rather and the moment the crispness over the shoulder. The organdie When it comes to the sélection System helps a great deal if you loosely, at a low waistline, to give the figure the long, straight lines Spanish model of apricot organdie with frills of black lace and departs the costume has lost its frock has pale pink flower clusters of a frock for the stout women, it have a large correspondence.
usefuluess. Do not forget to addlon a white ground and pink velvet is well to avoid horizontal-stripes) “Instead of stacking, open-Inow fancied. trailing poppies,
These gay belts willNNA